The Portland daily press., 1887-07-09
BASE BALL.
New England League !.


The Lawrences will play here again today.
1t will be the last game for a week and there
should be good crowd present. The boys
are playing good ball now and are giving
exhibitions Of the national game such as
are seldom seen outside of the large leagues.
Play begins at O'Clock.
PoRTLANDs, 8; LAwRENcEs, 2.
The Lawrences started in with vengeance
yesterday and it looked as il Small was 60
ing to be batted hard. The first man at the
bat got a safe hit to right field, and then
Farrell, the next man, brought him in with
home run over the left field fence. The
next three men went out on long flies, all
three of which were captured by DAWN, his
only chances in the game. These proved to
to be the last as well as the first runs for the
visitors, as they were blanked in every sue
ceeding inning. In the second the first two
men hit safely but Hatfield put out the next
and Small struck out two in succession.
After the first inning not man got beyond
second with the exception of Pettee, who
hit safe in the sixth, stole second and took
third on wild throw by Thayer. This all
occurred before any men were out but he
failed to reach home. being doubled up by
Hatfield with Murphy after Earle had gone
out at first.
The Portlands had to face Fitzgerald's
pitching and they did not act at all afraid Of
it. Every man except Small hit safe one or
more times, and he hit the ball everytime.
Tney scored in all except the second and
ninth innings. The first run was made by
Andrus who got first on balls, second and
third ON Dickerson's hit, and came home on
a wild pitch. Hatfeld's home run added
another in the third EOur halls and hraa
strikes had been called and the next one
pitched he sent sailing over left field fence.
DAWN was hit squarely on the head by
pitched ball in the fourth, stole second, went
to third ON FarrelPs wild throw and scored
on a put out. The fourth run was earned in
the fifth inning, Dickerson hitting safely
and coming home on Hatfield's three-bagger
Schoeneck got to second in the sixth on q
wild throw by Murphy, went to third on
wild pitch, and came home on wild throw
by Farrell. Three were added in the seventh
ON two singles, three-bagger, two steals
and two wild throws. The ninth and last
run was scored by Andrus, who hit safe,
sole second, and came in on Thayer's two
bagger.
The Portlands fielded splendidly and bat
ted heavily. Hatfield took the lead again in
batting, making single, triple and a
home run. He also made q neat double play
unasslsted, as mentioned above, and good
stop and throw of Earle's hot grOunder i'm
the ninth. Lufbery also did excellent work
and his stop of Turner's hit in the fourth
was worthy of special mention. Andrus
made two brilliant catchess of flies, taking
them both just before they reached the
ground, after hard runs. The visitors er-
rors were confined to the battery and short
stop and one at first base. The latter player,
Murphy, started out finely and made several
fine assists but Offset them later by several
bad throws TO first. He spoiled a base hit
for Schoeneck that would have brought one,
and perhaps two, men home, taking il with
one hand from away over his head. Burke
also spoiled a hit for Schoeneck, taking it
after hard run. Farrell led the batting for
the Lawrences, making a single and home
run. In the absence OF the regular umpire,
Quinn. the Portland pitche.. umpired and
gave excellent satisfaction. Following is the